Example sentences of "[vb infin] down [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main brain-boggler from this vantage point is without a doubt whether James Hetfield 's spittle will drip down through the metal grille as he stands above our heads . |
| 2 | then he 'll button down for a bit |
| 3 | For some reason , this letter so unnerved her that she thought she must rush down to the sea at once , and run the thudding in her head quite out of it . |
| 4 | We can not therefore budget down to the level of the individual patient . |
| 5 | And then they would spring down with a howl and rush to embrace her . |
| 6 | First the Cutty Sark and then we 'll explore down by the river . |
| 7 | Elsewhere there are Breughels ; walls covered with Delft tiles ; a medieval belfry with 366 steps from which you can gaze down on the town 's steep , red tiled roofs ; holy blood brought back from the crusades . |
| 8 | Though her hair was not quite dry Franca began to plait it very fast , letting a long thick plait materialise between her nimble hands , then tossing it over her shoulder and letting it hang down over the back of the chair . |
| 9 | She reached up , and kissing him fiercely on the lips , whispered a rhyme she had made up years before : " Tristram Pascoe , Tristram Pascoe , never , never let your lass go ! " — and when they had hugged , she watched him climb nimbly over the wall and heard him jump down into the hayfield on the other side . |
| 10 | You know , when you go straight there , and sometimes you get it , it 's not constructive , you know , but if I 'm getting jumped on , I tend to perhaps jump , jump down on the people below me . |
| 11 | As he walked across to the aircraft — which by then had taxied towards the buildings — he says he saw a dog jump down from the cockpit , before the pilot . |
| 12 | She insisted on knowing who her intruder was , and so she would wait down by the car to see who emerged from the building . |
| 13 | Not a muscle of Nan 's face moved , her stroke never faltered as she brushed and watched the flakes fall down on the newspaper she had spread beneath . |
| 14 | He used almost völkisch language , claiming that the Romanians ( unlike the Hungarian , German and other minorities ) were ‘ autochthonous ’ : ‘ They did not come from elsewhere , they did not fall down from the sky ; they were born and lived here , in this land , and they defended it with their blood . ’ |
| 15 | The barn owl can swoop down on a mouse in total darkness , guided only by a faint rustle in the undergrowth . |
| 16 | Hawks may swoop down from the sky and carry one off . |
| 17 | Every day the Ethiopian planes may swoop down from the sky . |
| 18 | He can doss down on the couch . ’ |
| 19 | She knew hat she would be flaunted before the whole of Northumberland if her mother had her way , so , although aware that good form dictated that she should dress down in the country , she took a deep breath and faced the fact that , for their first few outings at least , she would have to wear what Nora called her ‘ dressy ’ clothes . |
| 20 | However , they will break down at the end of the black hole 's life when its mass gets very small . |
| 21 | But a bowler who does not break down at the end of every other over and who can finish each season with an average around the 25 mark would be worth his weight in gold now . |
| 22 | Once the planting has been done , cover the soil with a thick mulch of crushed bark , peat or leaf mould , which will gradually break down into the soil and help to improve its texture . |
| 23 | The generally cooperative partnership between the local states and the developers did break down over the distribution of investment profits from central shopping development . |
| 24 | Initially , the new system would break down as a result of faults in the computer programs . |
| 25 | Some of these phases may dissolve and the coatings will break down by a combination of solution and particle attrition as less soluble particles break free and migrate into the body . |
| 26 | This effectively risks a breakdown in the Co-operative Principle ( CP ) , though the CP can only really break down by a reader stopping reading . |
| 27 | The Bill does nothing to increase the powers of the courts if order should break down inside a prison , although it touches in a new way on some of the matters relating to aiding and abetting an escape outside a prison . |
| 28 | They were quite far apart , it was light but still felt enclosed : you could look up and see the high tops of the pines swaying in a wind that you could n't feel down on the ground . |
| 29 | A little later , Lok 's interpretation of the scene is rendered without the introductory simile : " a track among the green smoke began to twist and sway down towards the river … |
| 30 | ‘ And , even if I did n't , for you , signorina , I 'd immediately send down to the cellar to get it . ’ |